Shiura saved a broken 1973 Casio calculator by turning its retro VFD screen into a Wi-Fi-connected clock using an ESP32.

While I understand why I should provie Alt Text to images, it is a Royal Pain in Butt. Luckily Gemini can help with this!

Random picture from 2014. More than 10 years ago already?

Cool wire spools https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/print-your-own-standardized-wire-spool-storage/

This is nuts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUH...

'Raspberry Pip' in my Electronics feed 😁

Started a new batch of vegan cashew roquefort. This time mushroom flavored. Here is what is expected in couple of weeks...

My wife said "poor baby...".

The Köln Concert - Wikipedia share.google/BlSw4r5c4x6A...

Another thrift store find: Elsmate EL-8151 calculator from 1970. The calculator sports VFD display and a printer. However, this is not a thermal printer but rather spark printer. The spark printer uses a conductive paper and electric current to burn away dots of the printout. #VFDCalculator

My wife said "ouch!"

I need unChristmas radio station. Ideas?

Sedan... Sedan-chair.jpg (489×380) share.google/kxQfECtvZP9b...

All the signs of life found on Asteroid youtube.com/shorts/stbcn...

Nixies! Some awesome calculator action here! This is the Sanyo caluclator, with the rightmost digit still bleeding into the leftmost during rollover, because there is a flaky short in it somewhere. #TWAAC

Today's thrift store find: Rockwell 24 RD. The calculator was manufactured around fifty years ago, ca. 1975 and has one interesting design quirk. Can you tell that this is negative number? #vfd #vintagecalculator

The GR-524 nixie tube is an extremely rare symbol tube made by Rodan-Okaya of Japan. The tube shows the days of the week in abbreviated Kanji. nixies.us/bwg_gallery/gr…

My entire Electronics feed today is dominated by Bolsonaro and his attempt to open ankle monitor with a soldering iron 🤭.

If you feel an overpowering urge to do something, sit down, drink a glass of water, and wait until it passes.

Making Actually Useful Schematics in KiCad

Whe life breaks your lemons, make some closeups! So much for joy from desoldering IV-17 VFD character tube form botched PCB... that it rolled off my desk.

The scale of the blue origin rocket isnt clear from most of the videos

I made an ascii art moon phase tracker that runs whenever I open a new terminal window, and it makes me aware of the passage of time more than any calendar. github.com/asweigart/as... and github.com/asweigart/as...

Today's thrift shop find: Commodore Minuteman 3 ca. 1973. How tiny this thing is! (see AAA batteries) Finally term "minuteman" has a different meaning from ICBM. "A 'minuteman' (hist) refers to a member of a colonial militia who was ready to fight at a minute's notice, especially during the Am Rev"

The most annoying thing about listening to the traditional radio stations is that I cant rewind.

Now, this is archeology!

Krompelka surprised that the batch job is finished.

Fake Geiger counter but it looks convincing with my coffee cup! Can you see the sensor?

Whenever I see Cybertruck on a road, it feels like there is some Universe crack opening. While I understand a need for a disruption, this thing seems to be made for individuals who say "fcuk you all" to everyone else.

In my damn Electronics feed I started seeing posts about cricket. It turns out that this is because of an acronym PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) 🤣.

Temporal Anomaly Clock. The clock shows time with its local anomalies. The sensitivity is set to 5 but "it goes up to 11". I did not dare go set it that high. #esp32 #vfd #esp32ntpclock

handsome fellow

While 65536 makes sense to me, 2^32 (4294967296) is beyond my consciousness. I do not recognize this number.

I do not recognize myself... I am becoming more and more abusive towards Gemini. I know that it tries hard but why the f**k it keeps adding citations to the code???

I know how to control my neighbor's leaf blower! I can hack it at any time. I can turn it on whenever I open a window!

A comparison of #Meshtastic #LoRa nodes in rural and urban environments. It sounds like the use of LoRa for community networks is steadily growing. hackaday.com/2025/10/09/m...

Inside a Germanium Transistor

This completely mind blowing and we can aford going about our daily life. We are speck of life on a speck of rock on a speck of fire on a speck...

Interesting psychological implications of interacting with AI. ​The news talks about people having "relationships" with AI, which seems possible given the human capacity for, well, anything. ​I try not to anthropomorphize AI, but I caught myself doing just that. ​

Asked Gemini to replace print() with logging in an old Python script. It did, but then started refactoring my code unprompted. When I asked WTF, it replied: "I apologise. I got carried over..."

It is official: I hate GIT. It is overcomplicated with questionable teminology, and I failed to learn anything beyond basics. Bad merge left my code like a pile of streaming s**t, and I can't check out develop branch. What are my options? Spend two hours fixing the code?

Did you know that birthdays are good for your health? Studies show that people who have more birthdays live longer.

Smartphone Sensors Unlocked: Turn Your Phone into a Physics Lab

I ordered 20 of those connectors and received 280. I am trying to imagine how this might have happened. 1. Disgruntled employee packed the content of the entire bin. 2. One picker instead of taking one pack from a bin took entire bag and went for a lunch. Another one put the whole bag into a box..

This Soviet-Style Clock Uses Homemade Nixie Tubes and Glowing Logic

Adafruit @adafruit.com is an absolute icon in providing not only fun parts but also education!